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Polyglot Pops (Slight Return)

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The other threads now pretty much cause my browser to melt down instantly but this is so good I wanted to share it anyway…

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=J76S5q_ETfo&si=0vDQXmeQEOgiV6rD

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    • A very fine group,@Salwarpe.

      The name rang the vaguest of bells for me, but that track is a killer.

      Incidentally, When we arrived at my daughter’s dancing lesson this afternoon, this track was playing. A killer.

  3. Thanks a lot for that wonderful clip @yorkio.

    I really enjoyed it.

    As far as i can work out, the band is called Taku.

    And they were performing a cover of a song by this band. Mono no Aware, who are Big In Japan.

  4. Can’t resist piling in on this third instalment of record collection widening, wallet flattening joy.

    Here’s some really interesting work from a guy in Casablanca working Afro-electronic magic with all sorts of field recording and found material:

    Interest piqued?

    >>adopts Attenborough voice<<

    Here he is in his natural surroundings, maintaining intense concentration within a crowd of fellow enthusiasts and carefully curating a mesmerising throb of dance beats…

  5. I went out for a forest stroll this morning with my Norwegian pal, Ove, who is a great Francophile.

    I mentioned how we’ve been talking on th AW about songs in foreign languages and how @Guiri had introduced us to some excellent French artists.

    He mentioned that one of his great favourites right now is Zaho de Sagazan . He’d love to see her live but she is preposterously popular and all her concerts sell out at once.

    This is the title track of her first album.

    I was very chuffed to report that she is on the AW radar

    Guiri described her as…

    electro-pop, completely bonkers, brilliant.

    Here’s a GUARDIAN article about how she wowed Greta Gerwig at the Cannes Festival.

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/09/zaho-de-sagazan-reinvents-french-love-song-freeform-dancing-socks

    What a performance.

    Her deliberately absurdist, freeform-dancing take on it went viral after she wove through the audience of film stars, boldly kicked off her shoes and leapt about in socks on stage – moving in her personal style which she describes as “teenager dancing alone in their bedroom”.

    It’s easy to understand all the excitement.

    “I felt I had to shake the festival up a bit,” she says. “The idea was to be a completely free woman who doesn’t care how she looks in the midst of this closed, self-conscious setting.” On the now famous socks, she shrugs: “I have a habit of taking my shoes off, I thought it would be more comfortable for dancing. I didn’t think it was a political act. But when you think it’s a festival which only a few years ago made women wear heels, well then yes, it can mean a lot of things. I hadn’t realised how much impact it would have. Some people said they cried watching it. There’s a thirst for liberty and authenticity right now.”

    • @Kaisfatdad That’s wonderful to hear. I do think she’s one of the good ones in every sense (but especially the voice!) Her one album to date isn’t *quite* as good as I wish it was but it’s at least 50% brilliant which is good going. Same with her Modern Love performance – not sure the version is all that – but the performance is so good. I can’t wait to see and hear what she does next.

      If your chum Ove has other French recommendations I’m all ears!

      • Don’t worry @Guiri.

        Ove is off to Paris in a few weeks and I’ ve told him I’m looking forward to getting a few new tips.

        I think he was pleasantly surprised to hear that, thanks to you, Zaho was already on my radar.

        Her performance of Modern Love at Cannes had such magnificent panache. I became a fan on the spot.

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